William Marshal († 1265)

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William Marshal , Lord of Norton (* after 1200; † 1265 ) was an English nobleman and rebel.

William came from a branch of the Marshal family . He was a younger son of John Marshal and his wife Aline de Ryes . His father was an illegitimate son of John Marshal († 1194), so his father was a grandson of John Marshal († 1165) and a nephew of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke . After the death of his father in 1235, Williams' older brother John inherited the family estates, while on November 28, 1236, William was given the office of Marshal of Ireland by the King , which his father had already held. After the childless death of his older brother John in 1242, William inherited the family estates, including Norton in Northamptonshire , and his mother was the heir to the Barony of Hingham and other estates of her father Hubert de Ryes in East Anglia .

Marshal was on the side of the aristocratic opposition under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester against King Henry III during the Second Barons' War . Together with Thomas de Cantilupe , Peter de Montfort and a few other barons, he belonged to the delegation of barons that traveled to France at the end of 1264 to arbitrate the French king, the Mise of Amiens . He fell in battle against the king's supporters in 1265.

Marshal had married Elizabeth de Ferrers, daughter of William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby and his second wife Margaret de Quincy. His son John became his heir . His widow married Dafydd ap Gruffydd , the younger brother of the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Clair - Sinclair: The Marshal family. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016 ; Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
  2. ↑ JR Maddicott: Simon de Montfort . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-37636-X , p. 328
  3. ↑ David Crouch: Marshal, Sir John (d. 1235). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  4. ↑ JB Smith: Dafydd ap Gruffudd. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME Marshal, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and rebel
DATE OF BIRTH after 1200
DATE OF DEATH 1265